Maternal Health

In the year after the ARRIVE trial, there were more inductions of labor, more deliveries at 39 weeks’ gestation and fewer cesarean deliveries nationwide, according to data published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

The CDC announced its launch of a new webpage housing materials for health care professionals as part of the agency’s Hear Her campaign to reduce pregnancy-related deaths, according to a press release.

Universal screening for hepatitis C virus detected more infections in pregnant people, as well as transmission to infants, according to a presenter at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.

In this video exclusive, Caroline T. Nguyen, MD, talks with Richard H. Lee, about the utility of fetal ultrasound for women with endocrine disorders.

The Obstetric Comorbidity Index predicted severe maternal morbidity similarly in racial and ethnic subgroups, according to data presented at The Pregnancy Meeting.

Women with persistent sleep-disordered breathing during and after pregnancy had an increased risk for hypertension and metabolic syndrome, according to data published in the American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine.

Women who ate a poor-quality diet before and during early pregnancy had an increased risk for high glucose tolerance test scores and gestational diabetes, according to a presenter at The Pregnancy Meeting.

More research shows that COVID-19 increases the risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Gestational diabetes recurred for nearly half of women with a prior history of the condition, with elevated fasting glucose level, high maternal birth weight and maternal obesity conferring added risk, according to study data.

A greater risk for long-term cardiovascular outcomes was associated with the development of gestational diabetes than previously thought, according to prospective data presented at The Pregnancy Meeting.